Natural phenomena such as wild waves and migrating geese are personal in the same sense as living buildings — they are deeply whole, deeply alive, and therefore deeply personal

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• The structure of living centers appears in natural things — snowdrops, waves, clouds, mountains, foxes, grains of sand — and these too resemble the human self, requiring that there be a deep connection under the surface.claim0.820
  Alexander's argument that self-likeness in natural forms cannot be explained by artistic intention alone, requiring Proposition 2 for theoretical coherence.
• Buildings and objects with living structure enlarge our capacity for relatedness; those without deaden it, even in nature.claim0.785
  Practical consequence for architecture and urbanism.
• The wave itself — the system which in present-day science we have considered as a purely mechanical hydrodynamical system of moving water — has some degree of life.concept0.779
  Alexander's definition of 'life' in broad sense, exemplifying how non-biological systems possess vitality.
• A wave breaking on the shore has some degree of life, not merely because of organisms within it, but the wave itself as a mechanical system has life.claim0.772
  Key example to show that life extends beyond organisms to inanimate dynamic systems.
• When a system of living processes acts in a human environment, two kinds of structures will appear within reach of every person: a unique private world and an attached public world.hypothesis0.772
  Predictive claim about the automatic spatial output of living process
• The existence of widely agreed‑upon lists of great buildings suggests a shared perception of life in buildings.claim0.771
  Argues for intersubjective agreement about the quality of life.
• The places shown are living structures because they have this character (coherence, roughness, humanity).claim0.770
  The selection criterion for the examples: their life resides precisely in their special character.
• The absence of life we recognize as a familiar problem of the past century comes about because the processes which create objects, artifacts, buildings, neighborhoods, agriculture, forests, towns, roads, bridges - nearly all fail to have the character of unfolding wholeness.claim0.769
  Diagnosis of modern lifelessness.